Chalking device



Oct. 5 1926.

' A. DI IOIA CHALKING DEVICE Filed April 25 1925 AfTORNEY Patented Get. 5, 1925 near arre t 1 ALBERT nr'IorA, on PHILADELPHIA, rnivns'ynvanrai ci-iALKIne nnvron.

Application filed April 25, 1925.; Serial No. 25,961.

My invention'relates to a new and useful chalking device particularly adapted for marking or chalking furs or the like.

'My invention relates more particularly to a novel chalking-device having a'suitable stencil or marking edge, a chalk container, and means to guide said chalk container above said marking or stencil edge so that itconsists of a stencil plate having anydesired.

ruling, marking or stencil edge, a' guide-way integral with said plate and extending along,

and co-extensive with said edge, a longitu dinal slide mounted in said guide-way and adaptedto travel therein a vertical slide carried bysaid longitudinal slide and a chalk container, open at its bottom, carried by said vertical slide, in vertical alignment with the stencil edge of said plate, whereby the container may be brought down into con.- tact with the stencil edge and the fur beneath the same. 7

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the. accompanying drawings forms thereof Which are at present preferred by me', since they will ive in practice satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood thatthe'various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization- 01 these instrumentalities as herein shownand described. g 7

Referring to the drawings in which like reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure 1 represents a plan view of a chalk ing device embodying my invention. Figure 2 represents a. rear elevation of the same.

Figure represents a section on line 3- -3 of Figure 2.

deterring to the drawings, 1 designates a plate having any desired ruling or stencil edge 2, in thep'articular case a serrated edge, and a guide channel 3 extending the length of the plate and projecting upwardly therefrom, said guide channel having a slot or opening 4 therein, through which a portion of the slide 5 may pass.

The slide 5 carries an upright plate 6, having the guide members 7, adapted to guide in a vertical line, the vertical slide 8.

The vertical slide 8 is constantly urged upwardly by the spring 9, interposed bet-ween the silde 5 andthe horizontal projection 10 1 of the verticalslide 8, and maybe :torce'd downwardly against the force of the spring 9, by merely pressing down upon the finger knob 11. The vertical slide 8 is bent atits upper end, as at .12, to which bent portion 12, 1s secured, inv any suitable manner, a chalk container 13, cylindrlcally shaped and having an opening 14 at its bottom, of a somewhat smaller diameter than the diameter or" the containen'and which container is so positioned by; said vertical slide as to bring said opening let in a substantially vertical alignment with the'stencil or marking edge-2 of the plate 1.

The chalking material 21 may be chalk dust or any other suitable powder, such as corn starch',.i'iour, or the like, andis contained within a small linen or other suitable textile bag 15, closed at its top, as shown in Figure. 3. After inserting the bag 15 loosely into the container 13, a lid 16 is superimposed uponthe top of the cylindrical cont-ainer' andis held secure thereto by means of the'annular bead 17 projecting from the wall of the cylinder, and the corresponding annular'groove or seat 18 in the flange 19 of the lid. The lid 16 carries on its inner side a spring-20, sufliciently strong to force said linen bag .15 with the chalking powderQl down towards the opening 1%, thereby retaining a small portion of said linen bag ro ectln through the o enni 14: so that '3 O p t" 3 it maybe brought into contact with the stencil edge 2 and the fur beneath the same. It will thus be seen, that by means of my novel chalking device 1t is only necessary. tov

place the chalking device upon the material, usually fur, with the marking or'stencil edge 2 along the line to be'marked, holding ant securing the plate 1 with one hand by merely pressing down upon it, depressing the thereby lowering the chalk container 13 against the stencil edge 2,'and lastly, moving the chalk'container and the slide 5, to and fro, guided by the guide-way 3, thus leaving a mark along the fur, of thesame general outline as the edge 2 of the chalking device.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a noveland useful chalking device which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of knob 11 a ainst the force of the sarin 9 r the invention and the above description, and while I have, in the present instance, shown and described a preferred embodiment thereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it'is to be understood that such embodiment is-susceptible of modiiication in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope o1 the invention or sacrificing any oi its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the character stated, a body having a ruling edge, a guide-way substantially co-extensive with said ruling edge, a slide mounted in said guideway, a chalk holder having a bottom opening carried by said slide in substantial vertical alignment with said ruling edge, a spring normally holding said chalk holder away from said edge and means for pressing the contents of said chalk holder downwardly.

2. In adevice of the character stated, a body having a ruling edge and a guide-way substantially co-extensive with said ruling edge, a longitudinally movable slide mounted in'said guide-way, a vertically movable slide carried by said longitudinal slide a container having an opening in its bottom carried by said vertical slide in substantial alignment with said ruling edge, a bag of powdered marking material contained in said container, and means in said container for pressing said bag downwardly.

3. In a device of the character stated, an elongated body having a ruling edge and a guideway substantially co-extensive therewith, a longitudinal slide mounted in said guide-way and'slidable therein, a vertical slide carried by said longitudinal slide, a chalking material container carried by said vertical slide in substantial vertical ailgn ment with said ruling edge, and yieldable means urging said slide and said container out of engagement with said ruling edge.

l. In a device of the character stated, a body having a ruling edge, a guide-way substantially co-extensive with said ruling edge, a slide mounted in said guide-way, a chalk holder carried by said slide in sub stantial vertical. alignment with said ruling edge, and having an opening at its bottom, and a fabric lining in said. chalk holder for retaining therein a chalking powder.

5. In a device of the character stated, an elongated body having a serrated ruling edgeand a guide-way substantially coextensive with said ruling edge, 'a. longitudinal slide mounted in said guide-way, a vertical slide carried by said longitudmal slide and,

a container carried by said vertical slide in slide carried by said longitudinal slide, a

chalking material container carried by said vertical slide, in substantial vertical alignment with said ruling edge and having an opening at its bottom, afabric baglining said chalk container for'retaining. therein a chalking powder and a spring. adapted to force said bag towards said'bottom opening, so as to project therethrough a slight distance.

7. In a device of the character stated, a'

body having a rulingedge, a longitudinally extending guide way thereon, a-s'lide movable longitudinally in said guide way, a bagv of powdered marking material carriedbysaid slide, means for normally holding the bottom of 'sald bag. normally. out otcontact with said ruling edge, and. meansior depressing said bag towards said ruling edge during the longituchnal movement of said slide.

81111 a deviceof the character stated, a

body having a ruling edge, a slide movable longitudinally on said body, a container carried by and vertically m-ova'ble upon said slide, and having an opening in its bottom, a bag of powdered marking material carried by said container, means in said-container for pressing the bagtowards the bottom opening in said container, means for holding said container and bag normally away from said ruling'edge, and means for depressing said container and bag towards said ruling edge.

9. In a device of the character stated, a container having an opening in'its bottom, and a removable lid, a bag" of powdered marking material positioned in said container, a spring intermediate said lid and the top of said bag for forcing the latter clownwardly, a ruling edge below the opening in said container, means for depressing said container towards said rulling edge and means for reciprocating said container'with respect to said edge.

ALBERT DI 101A. 

